RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks
Jazyk angličtina Země Spojené státy americké Médium print-electronic
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články, práce podpořená grantem
PubMed
36428233
PubMed Central
PMC10078134
DOI
10.1002/ecy.3923
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- Klíčová slova
- ecological networks, facilitation, plant-plant interactions, recruitment, replacement,
- MeSH
- biologická evoluce MeSH
- cévnaté rostliny * MeSH
- ekosystém * MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- rostliny MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., what recruits under what) shape the composition, diversity, and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions among species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community-level structure of plant recruitment interactions as a complex network can provide relevant information on ecological and evolutionary processes acting both at the species and ecosystem levels. We report a data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five continents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each network identifies the species under which another species recruits. All networks report the number of recruits (i.e., individuals) per species. The data set includes >850,000 recruiting individuals involved in 118,411 paired interactions among 3318 vascular plant species across the globe. The cover of canopy species and open ground is also provided. Three sampling protocols were used: (1) The Recruitment Network (RN) protocol (106 networks) focuses on interactions among established plants ("canopy species") and plants in their early stages of recruitment ("recruit species"). A series of plots was delimited within a locality, and all the individuals recruiting and their canopy species were identified; (2) The paired Canopy-Open (pCO) protocol (26 networks) consists in locating a potential canopy plant and identifying recruiting individuals under the canopy and in a nearby open space of the same area; (3) The Georeferenced plot (GP) protocol (11 networks) consists in using information from georeferenced individual plants in large plots to infer canopy-recruit interactions. Some networks incorporate data for both herbs and woody species, whereas others focus exclusively on woody species. The location of each study site, geographical coordinates, country, locality, responsible author, sampling dates, sampling method, and life habits of both canopy and recruit species are provided. This database will allow researchers to test ecological, biogeographical, and evolutionary hypotheses related to plant recruitment interactions. There are no copyright restrictions on the data set; please cite this data paper when using these data in publications.
Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research Granada Spain
Asociación Aprisco Torrejón el Rubio Spain
Bayreuth University Bayreuth Germany
Biodiversity Macroecology and Biogeography University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany
CEFE University of Montpellier CNRS EPHE IRD Montpellier France
Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México City Mexico
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación Moncada Spain
Departamento de Biología Animal Biología Vegetal y Ecología Universidad de Jaén Jaén Spain
Departamento de Botânica Universidade Federal do Paraná Setor de Ciências Biológicas Curitiba Brazil
Departamento de Ecología Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Natal Brazil
Department of Agricultural Sciences University of Naples Federico 2 Portici Italy
Department of Biology Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
Department of Biology and Geology Rey Juan Carlos University Móstoles Spain
Department of Biology Middlebury College Middlebury Vermont USA
Department of Biology York University Toronto Ontario Canada
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Los Angeles California USA
Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota Saint Paul Minnesota USA
Department of Ecology University of Granada Granada Spain
Department of Forest Biological Sciences University of the Philippines Los Baños Philippines
Division of Ecology Department of Biology Hacettepe University Ankara Turkey
Estación Biológica de Doñana Sevilla Spain
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Almería Spain
Estación Experimental del Zaidín Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Granada Spain
Faculty of Agriculture Ahi Evran University Kirsehir Turkey
Faculty of Education Department of Mathematics and Science Education Ordu University Ordu Turkey
Faculty of Forestry Technical University in Zvolen Zvolen Slovakia
Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences Open University of Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus
Freelance Scientist Huesca Spain
Institute of Agricultural Sciences ETH Zurich Switzerland
Institute of Biology University of the Philippines Diliman Philippines
Institute of Botany Ilia State University Tbilisi Georgia
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland
Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad Santiago Chile
Programa de Pós graduação em Ecologia Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology Zaragoza Spain
Real Jardín Botánico CSIC Madrid Spain
Servici Devesa Albufera Vivers Municipals de El Saler Valencia Spain
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater Maryland USA
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama Panama
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol School of Ecology Sun Yat sen University Guangzhou China
University of Bordeaux UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC Pessac France
University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
University of Tübingen Institute of Evolution and Ecology Plant Ecology Group Tübingen Germany
Key concepts and a world-wide look at plant recruitment networks